Tag: Entertainment
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Circus Clown A Serious Person Out Of The Ring
The same week the Magazine published a boring article about what the Supreme Court Justices are really like out of the courtroom, it made up for it with this awesome article about what circus clowns are really like out of the ring. The highlight is this interview with a then-famous clown named Slivers: “It’s funny,”…
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Where Music Soothes While Lobsters Broil
Based on this article one could only conclude that in 1910, live classical music in restaurants was as pervasive and annoying as Muzak is today. You sit down at a table. And all is very peaceful. The waiter silently passes the carte de jour, while he and the others quietly wander to and fro. This…
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Moving Pictures Sound Melodrama’s Knell
Movies were still relatively new technology in 1910, but filmmakers were already figuring out how to do special effects. This article exposes some of the secrets of “film tricks,” but also talks about how the profession of acting was changing as a result of this new technology. For centuries, acting meant being on stage before…
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